Inspired by lyricism and pastoral beauty, a programme including sumptuous works by Butterworth (A Shropshire Lad) and Vaughan Williams (The Lark Ascending), Mozart’s good-humoured Violin Concerto No. 5, and Dvořák’s exuberant Symphony No. 8.
Duncan Ward
Alexandra Soumm, violin
Flanders Symphony Orchestra
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody for Orchestra
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K.219
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
From Flanders looking westwards across the Channel, and eastwards to Bohemia’s hills and forests, this is a concert inspired by nature.
Butterworth and Vaughan Williams’ sumptuous works were set in motion by English poetry. But in a richly burnished orchestral tone poem, and in Vaughan Williams’ ever-popular, ravishing violin rhapsody, you can almost smell the warm earth, hear the dawn chorus and imagine yourself bathing in the still, sweet air of the English countryside.
Dvořák loved the great outdoors and frequently drew strength and inspiration from his natural surroundings. His symphony, from its glorious full-throated opening cello song to its boisterous, whooping finale, is him at his most genial and bucolic. Mozart’s final violin concerto sees him at his most impishly good-humoured.
“Alexandra Soumm brought a lush tone, technical aplomb and abundant personality to the performance.” The Baltimore Sun
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